The secretary-general of the PP, Teodoro García Egea, has said that his party will consider the petition of Vox to close the South Channel, against the opinion of their candidate in Andalusia, Juan Manuel Moreno, who ruled out the abolition of the Radio and Television of Andalusia (RTVA), not to be viable, the need to reform the Statute of Autonomy. The PP is aware of the negotiations with Citizens and Vox to achieve an absolute majority that will allow it to form a Government after the elections of last Sunday.
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Following the demand of the leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, last Monday, this Wednesday, Garcia Egea has opened the door to the closing of the chain autonomic to become a reality. “Will have to be judged later what model of television you need to Andalusia and if it is viable or not [the idea of the closure],” he said.
“There’s a lot more efficient the Administration andalusian,” said Garcia Egea in an interview on Antena 3, to add that, in this community, the taxes have gone “on occasion, Administrations inefficient”. “Then, in Almería, a child is in need Friday, to a diagnostic test for a disease that is rare and not had an endoscope, which is worth € 40,000, in the hospital of Almeria. I’d rather not have South Channel and having an endoscope in the hospitals of Almeria,” he proclaimed.
however, the candidate andalusian to the chair of the Board, Juan Manuel Moreno, disagreed with this Tuesday of García Egea to estimate that it is not feasible to close the South Channel, as it claims to Vox. “It is not a political decision, but one that involves a legal point of view and is included in the Statute of Autonomy of Andalusia,” said the leader of the PP andaluz.
“To close the South Channel would be necessary to amend the Statute and that is not reasonable,” said Moreno, pending negotiate with Citizens and Vox to fit a right wing Government led him as president. The popular candidate pointed out that if Vox is intended to model “more efficient and neutral, is consistent with this desire, but “closing it is another thing and it is not viable to this position”, he concluded. Of time, the address RTVA keeps silent and refuses to comment about it.
reiterating that there is that make the Administration “more efficient,” Garcia Egea has pointed out that this request is Vox closing Channel South “will have to be assessed whether it is viable or not.” In any case, it has been said that the model of autonomous networks “is working better in some places than in others, and, therefore, will have to be evaluated later which model of regional television may be to provide service to Andalusia”, has apostille.
In his view, can offer the same in a way “much more efficient”, so that the andalusians continue to “enjoy the same service”, in line with what has been done in other autonomous communities. However, he has clarified that he will be the one to tell if a regional television should exist or not.
The committee intercentros South Channel, which represents the template of 1.464 workers, has been replicated on the idea of closure: “What is being put in question are the rights of the andalusians, a few rights that are listed in the Constitution and our Statute of Autonomy. The right to a radio and television public in Andalucia which is the spine of the territory, which give a voice to all the andalusians, and that is the transmitter of the culture and the feel andaluz,” said its president, Ruth Mingorance.
“we Believe that we do not have to remind the political parties what is democracy. We are talking about the same sources of law that allow for the existence of the political parties and stand for election in andalusia. We deeply regret that the questioning of the rights of the andalusians and use the jobs of 1.464 families as currency in the political debate,” added the committee intercentros.
Southern Channel receives from the regional government of Andalusia 162 million per year and a decade ago its budget was 251 million (with a 16.8 per cent audience share, double the current). Regional television has 11 delegations (eight capitals, Madrid, Jerez de la frontera and Campo de Gibraltar), three production centers and a workforce of 1.445 workers has waned in 250 people during the last decade because there is no backfill of positions, or by retirement or death of employees. The average age of the workforce is 55 years.
